The American Civil War was a war of dualities—North and South, Union and Confederate, slave and free—and never less so than when it comes to dual biographies. Pairing personalities—Lee and Grant, Lee and Jackson, Grant and Sherman, McClellan and Lincoln—has been one of the most unusual features of the limitless literature of the Civil War.
Humans born in 1900 witnessed a startling stream of technologies that transformed their everyday lives and their understanding of the universe. Cars, telephones, and the internet overturned where we lived, how we worked, and whom we knew. Other scientific feats took the breath away by their sheer might—most of all, the atom bomb and a
Matt Parker is a mathematician who does comedy. Or a comedian who does math. It’s as eccentric a combination as you’re likely to find, but the amazing thing about his new book, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World, is that he managed to find over 50 other people to join him in the math.
President-elect Trump appeared Saturday at a screening of a documentary with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
After a surge in violence in the New York subway in the last few weeks, Gov. Kathy Hochul boasts that security cameras have been installed in 'every single subway car.'
Sen. Jacky Rosen, a new Democrat assigned to a key Senate committee, could bolster support for Israel in the new Congress.
ATLANTA— Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The first events reflected Carter’s climb up the political ladder, from the tiny town of Plains, Georgia, to decades on the global stage as a humanitarian and advocate for